Grim winter weather brings more snow to Bluefield area
Snow totals climb to about 25 inches in Mercer county and Bluefield as officials warn of impassable county roads especially Oakvale mountain. Schools postpone reopenings. area colleges and West Virginia state schools adjust schedules. City crews spend toke on snow removal with a $5,000 cost estimate.
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Mercer County
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Bluefield College
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Concord
David Kirby
West Virginia
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Tazewell County
Charles Belew
Maplewood
Belew
Cedar Bluff
Tasewell County
James M. Perry
Richlands
Southwest Virginia
Lester Marvin Parks
Speedwell
Wythe County
Bristol Area
Bristol
Reopening Of Schools In Most Of Area Delayed Until Thursday
Snow continues to disrupt area schools with Mercer county postponing reopening to Thursday and McDowell county planning to resume classes that morning. Wyoming, Buchanan and Bland counties also delay while bus routes leave hundreds stranded. Public officials assess road conditions and building needs ahead of the new schedule.
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Mercer County
Tazewell County
McDowell County
W. Va
Wyoming County
Buchanan
Bland
Virginia
War Riders Appearing On Insurance Policies
Richmond Virginia life insurance firms begin attaching war riders to new policies. The state corporation commission says a little more than half of licensed companies have submitted forms for approval. Most riders cover men likely to fight. use is discretionary under law. Many stopped using riders after World War II.
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Richmond
Old Dominion
State Corporation Commission
SCC
Administration Loses Test Vote on Excess Profits Tax
Washington November 28 The administration lost its first test in the excess profits tax fight as the House Ways and Means committee deadlocked 12 to 12 on a plan to tax corporate earnings above 75 percent of the three year average 1946 49. A final bill is hoped for Friday with action possible in January by the new Congress. Utilities get limited tax relief while other transport lines are excluded. The Senate Finance Committee will begin companion work soon.
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Filibuster Looms Over Alaska Statehood Bill
Washington reports a possible Senate filibuster against the Alaska statehood bill as the lame duck session begins. Opponents rally to delay and keep the measure from a quick vote, with southern Democrats wary of four new Senators and civil rights implications. The session shows scattered attendance and uncertain prospects for action this week.
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Truman
Alaska
Hawaii
O’mahoney
D-Wye
Gambling Fix Testimony Tells Of Florida Officials
Washington reports testimony by George Patton former Dade County deputy claiming Florida Governor Warren aide Leon Bishop tried to quash a gambling case after a raid in Hialeah December 1949. Patton testified at a senate hearing naming Bishop as a Warren staff colonel now indicted elsewhere.
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Florida
Fuller Warren
George Patton
Dade County
Miami
Gold Coast
Leon Bishop
Patton
Hialeah
Bishop
Warren
Floriaa
Dade County Grand Jury
James A. Sullivan
Florida Supreme Court
Sullivan
21 Chinese Divisions Reported in Korea Offensive
Dispatches from field headquarters in northwest and northeast Korea say 21 Chinese divisions are taking part in a 200000 man offensive against United Nations forces. The reports come as the conflict intensifies with new mass deployments from Communist forces.
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Tokyo
Northwest
Korea
United Nations
Chinese Reds Charged With Aggression Over Korea War
Warren R. Austin, American delegate, labeled the Chinese Communists guilty of aggression in Korea. Wu Hsiu-Chuan, spokesman for the Chinese Communist side, accused the U S of aggression against Asia and urged the Security Council to condemn Washington. The council adjourned with no action as debate continued.
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United Nations
John Foster Dulles
U. S
United Nations General Assembly
Lake Success
N. Y
United Kingdom
Kenneth Younger
Security Council
Washington
U.S
Austin
Korea
North Korea
Council
Formosa
Asia
United States
Peiping
U. N
Acheson
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United Nations Security Council
Red China
Soviet Union
Senate
Wherry
Nebraska
US Leaders Seek New Ways To Halt Red Tide In Asia
Washington reports show urgent U.S. efforts to halt the Red tide in Asia and prevent a wider war. Officials warn of a possible third world conflict as Korea worsens and debates over using atomic weapons surface in Congress and with the White House.
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Asia
Washington
U. S
Korea
Far East
Iron Curtain
Helicopter Rescues Expectant Mother From Snowbound Farm
An air force helicopter evacuated Mrs. Fred Van Lennepp, expectant mother and Castleton farm owner, from a snowbound thoroughbred establishment north of Lexington. Capt. John Christenson piloted the craft from Wrightfield Ohio as county workers struggled to clear the pike by November 28.
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Castleton Farm
John Christenson
Wrightfield
Dayton
van Lennepp
Raleigh Schools Bar Teacher Who Fled With Former Pupil
L. G. Daniel a Marsh Fork High School teacher, 35, was formally barred from Raleigh county schools after a hearing on charges of wilful neglect of duty. He is free on a $5,000 bond while awaiting grand jury action on the abducting of 17 year old Ann Tabor, whom he and Miss Tabor married after fleeing Charleston.
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W. Va
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Raleigh
L. G. Daniel
Raleigh County
Daniel
Ann Tabor
Charleston
Grant Ky
D. W. Bryson
Miss Tabor
Board of Education
Marsh Fork High School
Naoma
Girl Runs Barefoot In Snow To Alarm Fire
Twelve year old Christine Moxley warned her parents and led the alarm when a midnight fire destroyed the Attoway home three miles south of Marion West Virginia. She trudged through drifting snow in only pajamas to summon help, saving her parents with the roof later collapsing. The fire, caused by hot peas, destroyed the frame dwelling valued at 2500 with all personal property lost.
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Christine Moxley
Attoway
Here
Christine
Lloyd Moxley
Kenneth Killinger
US Autoists Forced To Pick Up Soviets
US military police said American drivers on the Vienna to west route in the Soviet zone of Austria were being forced to pick up unwanted Soviet soldiers hitchhiking. Sentries halted cars and refused passage unless space was made for the hitchhikers as Americans prepared to protest to Soviet authorities.
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U. S
West
Austria
MacArthur Denies Predicting End Of Korean War By Christmas
General Douglas MacArthur said his home by Christmas forecast reflected only the universal hope for an early war end. He explained the remarks in a cable to NBC reporter Ray Henle, denying any prediction of the campaign’s course or termination. Morin reported MacArthur had discussed the drive with generals Walker and Coulter and quipped that troops would dine at home when they reach the Yalu.
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Acheson
Washington
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MacArthur
Ray Henle
Henley
NBC
Pentagon
Tokyo
Relman Morin
North Korea
Morin
Walter H. Walker
John B. Coulter
Yalu
United Nations Commission
U. N
Korea
Chinese Red Offensive Deepens Korea War Front
Chinese Communist troops threaten to overwhelm four U S divisions in northwest Korea and mount cross front offensives in the northeast. Allied leaders debate using air power against Manchuria as vast numbers of Chinese and Korean Reds press along 75 miles of front from Tokchon to Sunchon and Won.
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Eighth Army
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Sunchon
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Pyongyang
First Corps
Chongchon River
Republic of Korea
ROK
U. S. 25Th
Binaggio Linked With Big Deal
Kansas City dispatch says Charles Binaggio Kansas City political boss planned to invest $200000 in a pumice company in Albuquerque. The firm formed in 1949 by Dennis Chavez Jr and Blevins Davis and backed by a $50000 loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The company won a large Armed Forces building blocks contract later canceled. Wallace and Roy L Cook denied Binaggio and an agent pursued them.
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Kansas City Star
Albuquerque
N. M
Charles Binaggio
D. F. Wallace
Truman
Binaggio
Dennis Chavez, Jr
Dennis Chavez
D-N.m
Blevins Davis
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Star
Jack Swift
West
Kefauver Senate
The
Wallace
Roy L. Cook
Binag
Storm Tossed Auks Land In New England
New Hampshire reported unusual visitors as a weekend storm drove auks ashore in towns across the state. The fish and game department advised releasing the birds by launching them from a bridge or guiding them over a wide water area to enable takeoff.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire
Greenland
Iceland
Spitsbergen
Fish and Game Department
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